Descriptions of Steve Bannon

a barrel of Mentos dropped into a swimming pool of Diet Coke

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/16/trump-bannon-russia-scandal-swamp-diary-215609

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IKBD6GmnNa0/Vvl_JheiwNI/AAAAAAAACGs/EcDH_3rawtYGlLS7EHZJYDh0Tzomde4Bw/s1600/794840436_CWxjf-M.png

"Steve Bannon, left, discusses policy with Richard Dreyfuss, right"

Was gonna take issue with this, @yashar, but Dame @chrissyteigen got the hot take. pic.twitter.com/j4R6LpIMBk

— Mary Forrest (@maryforrest) September 11, 2017

I'd argue that Bannon's appearance (like Trump's) isn't wholly irrelevant inasmuch as his general state of physical disrepair is probably at least somewhat reflective of the tattered state of his mind. I mean, it takes some savage self-abuse to end up looking like a fistful of used toilet paper dipped in pancake batter.

As I've said of Trump a number of times: he only looks like that because he's chosen to dispense with the basic level of upkeep and self-care people engage in to avoid being mistaken for a week-old ham discovered on the floor of a public park restroom.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/4fafwj/picture180111636/alternates/LANDSCAPE_1140/Senate%20Bannon

good grief

Uncooked Sausage Grimace

the hold he has over 2chins is hair-related rumor has it

I knew Trump shaved his undercarriage. I knew it.

bannon is trump's iago?

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/the-west-wing-trump-is-apoplectic-as-allies-fear-impeachment

Good god that picture. I've never seen a person with mildew before.

key bystander

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/11/bannon-trump-russia-probe-288862

once again i must marvel at the contrast between bannon's lustrous hair and the face of the career gasoline-drinker below it

look at the fucking nick of it

https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/33f40da/2147483647/resize/1160x/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F9f%2F19%2F6e5bb794459aa790aeb7cbd6be15%2F171207-steve-bannon-0-gty-1160.jpg

looking forward to his cameo in ANNIHILATION as the transformed corpse of a dugong

wow, somebody took william h. macy's character from shameless and expanded his head with a basketball pump

Just irished him up a lil

Anyway

Shavet cat person

Shaved

a carbuncled vandal from Virginia . . . a rootless cosmopolitan, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, a former producer who worked in godless Hollywood, a man who wouldn’t have a public career at all had he not latched onto a lunatic wingnut zillionaire from the proletarian enclaves of the Hamptons . . . a combination of Elmer Gantry and an aluminum siding salesman . . . one with all the old white folks . . . an endless bluff against his own barely concealed hypocrisy . . . the last heir to House Harkonnen . . . transparently lacking in shame . . . grubby huckster . . . a former investment banker in a camo jacket and 31 dress shirts. . . .

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a14415471/roy-moore-last-rally/

He looks like someone in the late stages of demonic possession except instead of a demon it's a fart.

don't want to think about bannon's demonic farts

Trump said Bannon has "lost his mind".

"Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books," Trump said.

"Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was," the president added.

rump blasted Bannon’s political instincts, saying he had “everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans.”

“Steve doesn’t represent my base — he’s only in it for himself,” Trump said in his statement.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367253-trump-bannon-has-lost-his-mind

http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2018/01/03/gingrich-bannon-has-exaggerated-sense-self-importance.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true

Slob Tzu

Today was the day Steve Bannon truly became a broken laundry basket full of sloughed-off back skin.

— Julius Goat 🦆 (@JuliusGoat) January 4, 2018

bannon blows himself

https://www.axios.com/bannon-blows-himself-up-2522392290.html?utm_source=sidebar

up

"Bannon may soon face a costly lawsuit after Trump's lawyers threatened action last night."

lol axios

Hugo Shavedge.

This just makes Bannon more famous. What bad consequence will come from this “self-immolation”? I don’t actually think this lawsuit is real.

Bannon laundered a confessional through a New York-media reporter for the same reason he laundered Clinton Cash reporting through the New York Times, while using his own website, Breitbart, for the distinct purpose of whipping up racial panic among people interested in completely different narrative truths.

https://crooked.com/article/bannon-trump-wolff/

Source: Mercer split w/Bannon began long before Wolff book. Real cause? Mercers vs. Bannon's proposed tax hike on millionaires.

— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) January 5, 2018

Oh hell

"I am the only person to date to conduct a global effort to preach the message of Trump and Trumpism; and remain ready to stand in the breech for this president's efforts to make America great again."

"My comments about the meeting with Russian nationals came from my life experiences as a Naval officer stationed aboard a destroyer whose main mission was to hunt Soviet submarines to my time at the Pentagon during the Reagan years when our focus was the defeat of 'the evil empire' and to making films about Reagan's war against the Soviets and Hillary Clinton's involvement in selling uranium to them."

"My comments were aimed at Paul Manafort, a seasoned campaign professional with experience and knowledge of how the Russians operate. He should have known they are duplicitous, cunning and not our friends. To reiterate, those comments were not aimed at Don Jr."

https://www.axios.com/scoop-bannon-sends-regret-to-trump-1515329924-dbfe9439-59e0-4773-8d3d-079e5ee2b493.html

that would be "breach", sloppy steve

Bannon, a soothing voice as well as a professional agitator, tried to argue the dialectical nature of what they had achieved (without using the word “dialectical”). Because Trump’s success was beyond measure, or certainly beyond all expectations, the media and the liberals had to justify their own failure, he explained to the new president.

Other than Trump himself, Bannon was certainly the oldest inexperienced person ever to work in the White House.

It was a flaky career that got him here.

Catholic school in Richmond, Virginia. Then a local college, Virginia Tech. Then seven years in the Navy, a lieutenant on ship duty and then in the
Pentagon. While on active duty, he got a master’s degree at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, but then he washed out of his naval career. Then an
MBA from Harvard Business School. Then four years as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs — his final two years focusing on the media industry in Los Angeles — but not rising above a midlevel position.

In 1990, at the age of thirty-seven, Bannon entered peripatetic entrepreneurhood under the auspices of Bannon & Co., a financial advisory firm to the entertainment industry. This was something of a hustler’s shell company, hanging out a shingle in an industry with a small center of success and
concentric rings radiating out of rising, aspiring, falling, and failing strivers. Bannon & Co., skirting falling and failing, made it to aspiring by raising small amounts of money for independent film projects — none a hit.

Bannon was rather a movie figure himself. A type. Alcohol. Bad marriages. Cash-strapped in a business where the measure of success is excesses of riches. Ever scheming. Ever disappointed.

For a man with a strong sense of his own destiny, he tended to be hardly noticed. Jon Corzine, the former Goldman chief and future United States senator
and governor of New Jersey, climbing the Goldman ranks when Bannon was at the firm, was unaware of Bannon. When Bannon was appointed head of the
Trump campaign and became an overnight press sensation — or question mark — his credentials suddenly included a convoluted story about how Bannon & Co. had acquired a stake in the megahit show Seinfeld and hence its twenty-year run of residual profits. But none of the Seinfeld principals, creators, or producers seem ever to have heard of him.

Mike Murphy, the Republican media consultant who ran Jeb Bush’s PAC and became a leading anti-Trump movement figure, has the vaguest recollection of
Bannon’s seeking PR services from Murphy’s firm for a film Bannon was producing a decade or so ago. “I’m told he was in the meeting, but I honestly
can’t get a picture of him.”

The New Yorker magazine, dwelling on the Bannon enigma — one that basically translated to: How is it that the media has been almost wholly unaware
of someone who is suddenly among the most powerful people in government? — tried to trace his steps in Hollywood and largely failed to find him. The
Washington Post traced his many addresses to no clear conclusion, except a suggestion of possible misdemeanor voter fraud.

In the midnineties, he inserted himself in a significant role into Biosphere 2, a project copiously funded by Edward Bass, one of the Bass family oil heirs, about sustaining life in space, and dubbed by Time one of the hundred worst ideas of the century — a rich man’s folly. Bannon, having to find his opportunities in distress situations, stepped into the project amid its collapse only to provoke further breakdown and litigation, including harassment and vandalism charges.

After the Biosphere 2 disaster, he participated in raising financing for a virtual currency scheme (MMORPGs, or MMOs) called Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE). This was a successor company to Digital Entertainment Network (DEN), a dot-com burnout, whose principals included the former child
star Brock Pierce (The Mighty Ducks) who went on to be the founder of IGE, but was then pushed out. Bannon was put in as CEO, and the company was
subsumed by endless litigation.

Distress is an opportunistic business play. But some distress is better than others. The kinds of situations available to Bannon involved managing conflict,
nastiness, and relative hopelessness — in essence managing and taking a small profit on dwindling cash. It’s a living at the margins of people who are making a much better living. Bannon kept trying to make a killing but never found the killing sweet spot.

Distress is also a contrarian’s game. And the contrarian’s impulse — equal parts personal dissatisfaction, general resentment, and gambler’s instinct -
started to ever more strongly fuel Bannon. Part of the background for his contrarian impulse lay in an Irish Catholic union family, Catholic schools, and
three unhappy marriages and bad divorces (journalists would make much of the recriminations in his second wife’s divorce filings).

Not so long ago, Bannon might have been a recognizably modern figure, something of a romantic antihero, an ex-military and up-from-the-working-class guy, striving, through multiple marriages and various careers, to make it, but never finding much comfort in the establishment world, wanting to be part of it
and wanting to blow it up at the same time—a character for Richard Ford, or John Updike, or Harry Crews. An American man’s story. But now such stories
have crossed a political line. The American man story is a right-wing story. Bannon found his models in political infighters like Lee Atwater, Roger Ailes, Karl Rove. All were larger-than-life American characters doing battle with conformity and modernity, relishing ways to violate liberal sensibilities.

The other point is that Bannon, however smart and even charismatic, however much he extolled the virtue of being a “stand-up guy,” was not necessarily a nice guy. Several decades as a grasping entrepreneur without a success story doesn’t smooth the hustle in the hustler. One competitor in the conservative media business, while acknowledging his intelligence and the ambitiousness of his ideas, also noted, “He’s mean, dishonest, and incapable of caring about other people. His eyes dart around like he’s always looking for a weapon with which to bludgeon or gouge you.”

However much a marginal, invisible, small-time hustler Bannon had been — something of an Elmore Leonard character — he was suddenly transformed inside Trump Tower, an office he entered on August 15, and for practical purposes, did not exit, save for a few hours a night (and not every night) in his temporary midtown Manhattan accommodations, until January 17, when the transition team moved to Washington. There was no competition in Trump Tower for being the brains of the operation. Of the dominant figures in the transition, neither Kushner, Priebus, nor Conway, and certainly not the president-elect, had the ability to express any kind of coherent perception or narrative. By default, everybody had to look to the voluble, aphoristic, shambolic, witty, off-the-cuff figure who was both ever present on the premises and who had, in an unlikely attribute, read a book or two.

Is this Wolff

yes

Bannon didn’t promote internal debate, provide policy rationale, or deliver Power-Point presentations; instead, he was the equivalent of Trump’s personal talk radio. Trump could turn him on at any moment, and it pleased him that Bannon’s pronouncements and views would consistently be fully formed and ever available, a bracing, unified-field narrative. As well, he could turn him off, and Bannon would be tactically quiet until turned on again.

By ten weeks in, Steve Bannon’s mastery of the Trump agenda, or at least of Trump himself, appeared to have crumbled. His current misery was both Catholic in nature — the self-flagellation of a man who believed he lived on a higher moral plane than all others — and fundamentally misanthropic. As an antisocial, maladjusted, post-middle-aged man, he had to make a supreme effort to get along with others, an effort that often did not go well. Most especially, he was miserable because of Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.

funemployed

Steve Bannon is like a collage of every gross closeup on Ren & Stimpy.

— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) January 9, 2018

Steve Bannon is one of those weird '50s recipes where you stitch slices of olive loaf into the rough shape of a human and fill it with cottage cheese and aspic.

a sentient shitpost that magically inhabited a biohazard disposal facility so as to teach the world about alcoholism

https://www.avclub.com/lets-check-in-on-the-breitbart-comments-section-which-1821948032

finally getting the robert redford role he was born to play

https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-lawyers-up-russia-investigators-ready-to-pounce

Trey Gowdy, who led the Republican questioning, pressed Bannon hard on his description of Don Junior's Trump Tower meeting as "treasonous." Gowdy asked Bannon whether he would consider it treason for somebody close to him to approach Wikileaks' Julian Assange to get opposition research on Hillary Clinton. Bannon replied that such a scenario would be bad judgment. Then Gowdy produced emails from a Cambridge Analytica employee — the Trump campaign data firm closely affiliated with Bannon — boasting of just such contacts with Assange. Bannon claimed this was the first time he'd seen these emails (though they've been in the news).

https://www.axios.com/steve-bannon-congress-testimony-inside-room-e30bd797-3720-44f0-bf32-5760cb6882e9.html

non-denialist

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/378569-bannon-i-dont-deny-anything-in-fire-and-fury-book

voter suppression middle manager

https://shareblue.com/cambridge-analytica-christopher-wylie-voter-suppression-testimony-steve-bannon/